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Re: How come pedals sound different on tape vs live?

You just don't have access to all the mics they used, EQs and other gizmos that can be used to boost or cut stuff, compressors , and so on, not to mention the amps he used. You're hearing an idealized picture of Kurt using that gear in the recording, but a realtime full spectrum sound from your amp when you play it.

- Tom

Originally Posted by Frankly

Some people make the wine. Some people drink the wine. And some people sniff the cork and wonder what might have been.

The Eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the Crow.

Re: How come pedals sound different on tape vs live?

Originally Posted by guitfiddle

You just don't have access to all the mics they used, EQs and other gizmos that can be used to boost or cut stuff, compressors , and so on, not to mention the amps he used. You're hearing an idealized picture of Kurt using that gear in the recording, but a realtime full spectrum sound from your amp when you play it.

+1. The thing that you can hear on the recording is the output of a massive audio engineering processing and post-processing. Add Butch Vig to it and you can be sure that they threw into the mix anything under the sun to have certain sounds.

Onstage is a whole different world. It's everything about feel and confidence up there. Does your Small Stone feel thin for you? Change for something else that feels better.

Re: How come pedals sound different on tape vs live?

Originally Posted by TheLivingDead

Dunno.

But your avatar is distracting. She's too effing cute.

DON'TGETMADBRO

+3

Originally Posted by Edgecrusher

Happy with an Epi? Great! Want an R9? Great! Like paying a thai hooker to strap up and roto root your backside cause you think it makes you hit the high notes better? Great! If they are happy and go out and play some kick ass music then its all good in my book.

Re: How come pedals sound different on tape vs live?

Originally Posted by SlyFoxx

Everything sounds different on tape versus live.

Bingo.

When you record, the sound you're used to hearing live gets squeezed into a tiny mic diaphragm, pumped through the channel strip on a mixing console (and whatever else the engineer decided to put on your channel), sifted through an AD converter, and coded as binary data (unless you record to actual tape, which colours the tone even more if anything). Expecting it to sound exactly the same after all that is lunacy.

Pretty much every time I've recorded anything I've had to completely change my amp settings from their normal live position. Some guys use entirely different rigs to record.

Re: How come pedals sound different on tape vs live?

Originally Posted by ratherdashing

Bingo.

When you record, the sound you're used to hearing live gets squeezed into a tiny mic diaphragm, pumped through the channel strip on a mixing console (and whatever else the engineer decided to put on your channel), sifted through an AD converter, and coded as binary data (unless you record to actual tape, which colours the tone even more if anything). Expecting it to sound exactly the same after all that is lunacy.

Pretty much every time I've recorded anything I've had to completely change my amp settings from their normal live position. Some guys use entirely different rigs to record.

That explains why whenever I video tape myself and think I did an awesome job, the playback just sounds like I'm playing thru a transistor radio. Thank GOD its my recording and not me!

Seriously tho, what should one do to their sound to better facilitate recordings? Quiter? Less distortion? Compression? I've experiemented with mic placment, but that is very tedious..